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* reiser4 for windows
@ 2004-12-04 21:10 Job Bob
  2004-12-05  1:57 ` Hans Reiser
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Job Bob @ 2004-12-04 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: reiserfs-list

  I know that this question has a fairly obvious
answer, but is there or will there be a reiser4 driver
for Windows? Microsoft will only make one if enough
people use reiser4, otherwise hell will freeze before
they do. The free software people seem to suffer from
NIH syndrome, so they probably won't help either. That
only leaves individuals or companies. Any ideas on
when we might we a reiser4 driver for windows?

                                       Yale


		
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* Re: reiser4 for windows
@ 2004-12-07  6:07 Jiri Klouda
  2004-12-07  8:29 ` Redeeman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: Jiri Klouda @ 2004-12-07  6:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Reiserfs

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> Also, is it a given that reiser4 for windows would work without help
> from MS?  I've just never seen a third-party filesystem driver for
> windows.  You'd think that at least one other filesystem, one of the
> Linux/BSD/etc ones, would have done this, if it was feasable.

You might be onto something here. I am pretty sure my company would
pay quite a lot for a working, fast and elegant implementation of 
symbolic links on windows. Either as a new filesystem or as an addition 
onto ntfs. We currently use one such addition and not very usable and
uses a catalog of symlinks that can easily get corrupted.

Having reiser4 on Windows or even ext2, would be a huge thing.

> All this leaves me with the distinct impression that it'd be cheaper to
> buy some gigabit ethernet (or fibre) and a Linux CIFS/Samba fileserver
> using reiser4.  Steam and others refuse to install on network drives,
> Windows probably will not boot off a network drive, but I imagine that
> fixing these would be easier than porting a filesystem.

Unfortunatelly even with very fast ethernet connections and network
appliance with CIFS access, we still don't get the performance of a
local filesystem. Plus, you don't want to really give write access 
over network, that slows down anything when you get into hundreds of
clients. And we really cannot pay for so many network applicances to
make this scalable proposition.

I wish we could just drop Windows as a platform, but as long as there
are customers, there will be need to support them as well... :(

-Jiri

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Jiri Klouda <jk@zg.cz>
http://www.zg.cz/~jk

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2004-12-04 21:10 reiser4 for windows Job Bob
2004-12-05  1:57 ` Hans Reiser
2004-12-05  4:00 ` Hans Reiser
2004-12-05  4:54   ` David Masover
2004-12-07  8:28     ` Redeeman
2004-12-08  0:51     ` Philip Miller
2005-01-26 19:27       ` Marcus Furlong
2005-01-16  2:39     ` Hans Reiser
2005-01-16  6:07       ` David Masover
2005-01-17 16:46         ` Hans Reiser
2005-01-17 17:12           ` Christian Iversen
2005-01-18 16:37             ` Hans Reiser
2005-02-01  8:52               ` mjt
2005-02-01  9:59                 ` Christian Iversen
2005-02-02  1:18                   ` David Masover
2005-02-02  8:02                     ` Christian Iversen
2005-01-18  5:08           ` David Masover
2005-01-18 17:03             ` Hans Reiser
2004-12-05  8:14   ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-12-05  7:37     ` David Masover
2004-12-06  2:31 ` Jonathan Briggs
2004-12-06  4:17   ` Tierra
2004-12-06 14:55     ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
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2004-12-07  6:07 Jiri Klouda
2004-12-07  8:29 ` Redeeman
2004-12-08  1:40   ` Spam
2004-12-08  4:38     ` David Masover
2004-12-08  7:50       ` Radovan Garabik

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